{"id":21311,"date":"2019-09-11T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2019-11-09T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T21:14:30","slug":"great-britain-win-but-miss-out-on-euro-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=21311","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain win but miss out on Euro Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/2019_GB_EuroGER-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Great Britain lining-up against Germany. Photo courtesy of Paul Stodart, https:\/\/hotshot.photo\" class=\"wp-image-21312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/2019_GB_EuroGER-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/2019_GB_EuroGER-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/2019_GB_EuroGER-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/2019_GB_EuroGER-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/2019_GB_EuroGER.jpg 1454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Great Britain lining-up against Germany. Photo courtesy of Paul Stodart, https:\/\/hotshot.photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great Britain did all they could in Germany on Wednesday, but sadly it wasn&#8217;t quite enough to earn a European Championship quarter-final place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lions beat Sweden 13-7 to finish their First Round on a 2-3 win-loss record. The result left the team and their supporters waiting nervously as Germany played the Czech Republic, knowing that a win for Germany would be enough to put GB through to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately for us, the Czech Republic had other ideas. Their 10-6 victory meant the Czechs finished 3rd in Pool A. Germany&#8217;s previous 1-0 win over GB on Sunday broke the tie between the two 2-3 teams, putting them in fourth place and Great Britain into the classification round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did a live-stream on Periscope\/Twitter after the game and have uploaded it onto the new British Baseball Beat YouTube channel, adding in some excellent photos by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Paul Stodart (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/hotshot.photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Stodart<\/a>, who is out in Germany with the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/caYwGXJ0_pQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As discussed in the video, here&#8217;s how the Classification Round section is structured (all times in BST). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/White1-Copy-Copy-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/White1-Copy-Copy-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/White1-Copy-Copy-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/White1-Copy-Copy-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/White1-Copy-Copy-2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tournament continues for Great Britain with a game against Austria on Thursday (10.00am BST first pitch). Follow the game live at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballsoftball.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"baseballsoftball.tv (opens in a new tab)\">baseballsoftball.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain did all they could in Germany on Wednesday, but sadly it wasn&#8217;t quite enough to earn a European Championship quarter-final place. The Lions beat Sweden 13-7 to finish their First Round on a 2-3 win-loss record. The result left the team and their supporters waiting nervously as Germany played the Czech Republic, knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,572],"tags":[556,72,63],"class_list":["post-21311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","category-slider","tag-british-baseball","tag-european-championship","tag-great-britain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21359,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21311\/revisions\/21359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}